771 Series I Volume XXXIV-III Serial 63 - Red River Campaign Part III
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mand will move upon the Wire road and General Walker's by the lower road via Minden. The general will travel the same road as yourself, and wishes you to keep yourself informed in regard to all cross-roads which connect the three roads above mentioned. Major Douglas informs me you have been furnished with a map.
I am, general, very respectfully, your most obedient servant,
S. S. ANDERSON,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, Shreveport, April 16, 1864.Brigadier-General CHURCHILL,
Commanding, &c.:GENERAL: The general commanding directs me to say you will proceed with your column by the Wire road in the direction of Camden. General Parsons' command will take the middle road by way of Rocky Mount and Calhoun. Walker's division goes by the lower road via Minden. The general will travel the middle road. He wishes you to keep yourself informed in regard to all cross-roads which connect the three roads above mentioned.
I am, general, very respectfully, your most obedient servant,
S. S. ANDERSON,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, Shreveport, April 16, 1864.QUARTERMASTER AT MAGNOLIA
(Who will forward by courier this dispatch
to Major-General Price):
General Smith directs that in addition to telegraphing from Magnolia you will send any important information of Steele's movements to Walker, on the Minden road; General Smith, on Shongaloo road; Churchill and Parsons, on telegraph road. Shongaloo road is from Calhoun to Benton.
W. R. BOGGS,
Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.
HEADQUARTERS NORTHERN SUB-DISTRICT, Bonham, Tex., April 16, 1864.Captain E. P. TURNER,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Houston:
CAPTAIN: I inclose herewith copies of letters from Colonel Bourland and Captain Scott, assistant adjutant-general on General Maxey's staff, from which it will be seen that while our friends are contending against the enemy in Louisiana and Arkansas we must expect to meet them in the Indian Territory, on Red River, or Northern Texas, aided by a strong disloyal faction among our own people, which is doubtless among our troops in this section of the country, which renders them more or less unreliable in operating against the
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